Review: Daddio (2023)
One of the most reliable cultural barometers of the last few years should have been the fall of Sean Penn. The shorthand for the worst speci
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Anatomy of a Protest
What a caravan of tractors and the heirs to Ross Perot tell us about Middle Tennessee’s relationship to its past.
This Week in Streaming (June 25th)
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Journeys to the Wasteland
The Bikeriders and Furiosa chart the enduring appeal of the open road.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 21-27
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Review: Coma (2022)
The most disheartening aspect of life in Pandemica was the unified compliance of the arts community–-Rage Against the Machine requiring fans
This Week in Streaming (June 18th)
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The Strangers: Chapter 1’s Rural Trad Trauma
The much-maligned reboot is the ultimate treatise on the vapidity of coastal elites and family-values fetishists.
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Book Review: In My Time of Dying
Over the past four decades, journalist Sebastian Junger has routinely cheated death in warzones and fiefdoms in Afghanistan and Nigeria. His
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I Saw The TV Glow and the Cinema of Self-Deception
A24’s latest wallows in its own insularity.
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: June 7-June 13
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Book Review: Adult Drama
What does art that passes an amorphous purity test look like? It’s the question that has remained woefully uninterrogated in the wake of #Me
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